{"title":"Charlotte Wood","description":"Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of nonfiction. Her 2016 novel The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize in her native Australia and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Her 2020 novel, The Weekend, was an international bestseller.","products":[{"product_id":"stone-yard-devotional-paperback","title":"Stone Yard Devotional - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eTOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eTOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e is as extraordinary as you've heard.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meditative (but by no means uneventful).\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBurnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeditative, moving, and finely observed, \u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101142356191,"sku":"9798217047369","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MDpN__juY_9798217047369.webp?v=1781068342"},{"product_id":"the-natural-way-of-things-paperback","title":"The Natural Way of Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe prescient feminist fable and international classic described as \"\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale \u003c\/i\u003efor our age\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Economist), \u003c\/i\u003efrom the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there. Doing hard labor under a sweltering sun, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each woman's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear that the women must rescue themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 2016 and ever more relevant upon its 10th anniversary, \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of humankind's own vast contradictions--the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102288810207,"sku":"9798217047383","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cF2wgX2lPG9798217047383.webp?v=1781079289"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/charlotte-wood.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}